Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than one million people in the United ...

Scientists at Keck Medicine of USC are testing an experimental stem cell therapy that aims to restore the brain’s ability to ...

A new stem cell treatment could offer hope for people living with Parkinson’s - More than 1 million Americans live with the ...

Parkinson’s disease has long been defined by the slow, relentless loss of dopamine-producing neurons, with treatments focused ...

Stimulating dopamine-producing brain cells wirelessly with gold nanoparticles has proven effective at treating mice with Parkinson's disease, even reversing a portion of their neurological damage.

A California-based biotech company says it’s successfully implanted lab-made neurons in Parkinson’s patients’ brains to stimulate a dopamine response — and if it works as intended, it could be a ...

Researchers have demonstrated that a transplant surgical procedure (called 'needle trauma') triggers a profound immune response and causes the death of most grafted dopamine neurons. They also found ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Columbia University and the University of San Francisco, have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which dopamine, a key brain chemical vital for movement ...

A stem cell–based therapy initially developed at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) may lead to a new treatment for advanced Parkinson’s disease, according to results from a phase 1 clinical ...